Doug Rabson wrote:
> That would work. I think I only need uniqueid, sig_saved,
> saved_sigcontext, saved_jmpbuf, state and nxt. If those guys were lumped
> up at the start of struct pthread (possibly in another struct so that gdb
> doesn't need to know sizeof(struct pthread)) and marked appropriately then
> the debugger interface would be quite stable.

I'd be inclined to add the magic number too, because it gives a hint
as to whether the structure refers to a valid thread. If the thread
is destroyed, the magic number is trashed.

I think it is worth adding a new header file defining such a structure.

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